…and the answers upset them, cause them to annoyedly question why you are determined to upset them. The answers to these new questions upset them further and lead to still more insistent questions about your reason for being disagreeable. And the answers to these are, in turn, more aggravating still, leading to even more pointed questions. Ad infinitum.

Perhaps it is less disagreeable to refuse to answer in the first place.

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File it away.

Just file it away.

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Just think of all the things you could accomplish if you were completely antisocial and alone.

Just think of how lonely you would be accomplishing all of those things by yourself.

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Anyone who is anyone is a magician, able to choose ‘C’ in the midst of a reality that offers only ‘A’ and ‘B’. Such people pull the stars down and pocket them absent-mindedly.